Overestimated the price, but I wouldn't recommend the case to anyone since it's mainly catered to people who want design over usefulness.

I also want 100% high quality material (aluminum) over usefulness, that means no plastic inside a high end case. Currently, there are very few cases on the market that use no plastic (or are there any at all?). Almost all Lian Li's and Silverstones "fail" here, not even talking about other manufacturers. It was better like 10 years ago, when Coolermaster still made all aluminum cases, but since newer cases have to have more and more and more features, plastic is very common these days, regardless of price.

I like the InWin H-Frame, though it's a bit too small from the inside (no E-ATX, barely room for Watercooling) and it will eat just too much dust.
Still, I might buy this case, doesn't get any better than this regarding "no plastic".

I also want 100% high quality material (aluminum) over usefulness, that means no plastic inside a high end case. Currently, there are very few cases on the market that use no plastic (or are there any at all?). Almost all Lian Li's and Silverstones "fail" here, not even talking about other manufacturers.

You have to be as crazy and as paranoid about plastic as I am to see it. But it's not expected from a $99 case to be all aluminum anyway.

- power and reset button (though not sure here)
- the inside of the clamper for the 5.25" drive
- holes for watercooling tubes (yes those can be made out of metal without having them cut through your tubes)
- the machanism that holds the whole case front
- small top cover of the case front
- grid that holds the dust filter
- parts of the HDD cages
- case feet all rubber (of course the bottom part or layer must be rubber, but not the whole thing)
- ...and a few other things

But there's no point to argue about this, 99% aluminum is fine for 99% of buyers. Any discussion leads to nowhere, as almost nobody is gonna accept if someone criticizes a few minor plastic parts. Of course it's fine to use plastic if it is the technologically superior material, I just don't like it if they use it due to cost savings, and in most cases that is the reason.

I agree. Expecting absolutely no plastic in a case is unreasonable... There are some areas where plastic/rubber makes more sense, specifically in some of the areas Sarevoc mentioned (buttons, grommets, dust filters, feet, etc).

I can't think of any plastic in my Silverstone TJ08-E that is unreasonable, nor in any of the modern Fractal Design or Corsair cases I've worked with.

Looks excellent, especially with the cables running through the back instead. Makes for a much cleaner impression. I have myself been thinking about removing the H80 in favour of a (much quieter) air cooler. With my leaf-blower 7970 I doubt it will do much difference as a whole though.

Well, InWin almost did it with the H-Frame! Apart from the feet (which could be easily replaced or removed), it's exactly that: no plastic at all.
That's why I find this case so fascinating.

This is a 1 out of 1000 case, and then they marry it with a weird open air concept and "ruin" it by that.
Obviously there are no customers for all aluminum cases, or else other manufacturers would offer such products. No market for $1000+ cases.

High quality all aluminum cases are standard in High End HiFi, they are non existant in the PC world.
Like this Jeff Rowland power amplifier for example. Never ever seen similar "quality" in the PC world. You could say it's not necessary, but that's also true for HiFi, yet there they still exist, albeit the price point is in a different dimension.

Something like this for an ATX PC would be my "do it yourself" project, I'm willing to spend a few thousand $ for it.